MeetMeego.org has the dirt on the details of Nokia's next two MeeGo devices [German]. To sum up: the first device, the (very) long-awaited N9, has a similar design to the N900 - a horizontal sliding 4-line keyboard, but this time with a tiltable screen, a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8-based processor, a 12MP camera with Carl Zeiss lens, and HDMI out. It will be a developer device, distributed at developer conferences such as the MeeGo Conference in San Francisco in a couple of days.

Actually, dual-core phones have existed for years already. For example N96 sports 2xARM9 cores and it was released already back in 2008. So yeah, they're definitely not a new thing and even back then it managed to last the whole day without recharging.

Sorry to ask this, but exactly is the "baseband" ? Network signal demodulation/decoding and analysis ?

Don't be sorry.

Yes it does that (in a dsp) and holds the telephony stack (GSM etc) . Telephony functions are exposed to the OS as a service and the application (that is the main os) does not (and can not) govern them in order to maintain network access.

"Actually, dual-core phones have existed for years already. For example N96 sports 2xARM9 cores and it was released already back in 2008. So yeah, they're definitely not a new thing and even back then it managed to last the whole day without recharging.

No, N96 did indeed use both cores for applications. After all, why even market it as a dual-core phone if only one was in use? The problem -- as far as I understand it -- was that all applications ran in single-threaded mode, which obviously means that they'd still use only one of the cores at a time. And since both cores were clocked at only 264Mhz -- half of what competing phones did at the time or even less -- it made all the applications really sluggish and slow.

It was a really half-assed attempt at dual-core systems from Nokia and it would have been a bigger hit if they had actually redone their apps to use multi-threading and added support for that in the OS itself. I owned a N96 for a while and moved on to N900 later on, haven't regretted it even once :]